Haryana Steelers and Tamil Thalaivas play out a thrilling match to a tie. Twitter/@HaryanaSteelers

Surjeet Singh opened Haryana Steelers account with a successful raid in the first minute of the encounter. Prapanjan scored with a raid in the second minute as Tamil Thalaivas trailed 1-2. A couple of empty raids followed as Wazir Singh made it 4-2 for Steelers in the third minute.

Tamil Thalaivas scored three points in succession to lead 5-4 after five minutes. Haryana Steelers responded in equal measure to lead 7-5 in the eighth minute.

Ajay Thakur had a quiet first half for Tamil Thalaivas as they trailed 7-9. Both teams' defence was looking good in the first half as the bulk of the points came from tackles.

Tamil Thalaivas levelled the match at 10-10 in the 18th minute as Dong Geon Lee made a successful raid. Surender Nada had a splendid first half for Steelers and scored six points. Haryana Steelers ended the first half leading 13-10.

Tamil Thalaivas started the second half brightly and inflicted the first all out of the match in the 24th minute to lead 17-14.

Vikas Kandola made a successful raid for Haryana Steelers to reduce the gap to two points. Prapanjan scored with a two-point raid in the 26th minus as Thalaivas led 19-16.

With less than 10 minutes to go, Haryana Steelers tried to mount a comeback and trailed 19-20 in the 32nd minute. Prapanjan scored his seventh raid point of the match as Thalaivas led 21-19 after 33 minutes.

It was neck and neck as Tamil Thalaivas led 22-21 in the 35th minute. Vikas Kandola levelled the game at 22-22 with less than five minutes to go.

Haryana Steelers led in the match for the first time after first half as they made it 23-22 in 37th minute.

Thalaivas came back to lead 24-23 in the 38th minute. Ashish Chhokar made it 25-24 for Haryana Steelers with a raid in the penultimate minute.